Chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster.
High production values and a fine ensemble cast: HBO knows how to do TV.

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The original television series version following the crew of a German WW2 U-Boat as they live together, hunt Allied shipping and are preyed on themselves. The tension, claustrophobia and their fear leap out of the screen and totally avoids any sense of nationalism in what would have been fatal for this superb production.
Awesome.

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One of the most stunning nature documentaries ever seen on British TV. The ubiquitous David Attenborough navigates on an epic voyage through one of Earth's last-remaining and most delicate wildernesses, the Antarctic. find out more...

From Pole to Pole; the introduction to the series looks at our planet as a whole. This includes awesome and unique footage of a pack of African Wild Dogs hunting. find out more...

Caves; jumpers parachuting into 400m deep holes, unique ecosystems full of strange and exotic troglodytes, the world's largest colony of cockroaches living on bat dung and the beautiful and unsurpassable Chamber of Chandeliers deep underground in New Mexico. find out more...

Great Plains; how many of you know that the most numerous bird on the planet is the Red-billed Quelea? Now do you want to see the size of their flocks? And, for the less faint-hearted, did you know that a largish pride of hungry Kalahari lions (30 in this example) will bring down and kill a largish elephant if it's isolated from the herd? find out more...

Seasonal Forests; from General Sherman, a giant sequoia ten times the size of a blue whale and the largest living thing on the planet, to 4,000 years old bristlecone pines that pre-date the pyramids. From the world's greatest insect emergence, cicada, to the baobab forests of Madagascar. find out more...

400 years after the Republic's birth Rome has become the wealthiest city in the world, home to over 1 million people and the epicentre of one of the greatest empires history has ever known; but with this phenomenal success has come corruption and excess, the very principles of Rome's founding fathers are under threat and its time as a Republic is drawing to a close. Rome is a magnificent and full blooded dramatisation of the Empire's rebirth. find out more...

A mind boggling expose of what lurks in the salty wet stuff and, quite probably, the most comprehensive and beautifully filmed glimpse of our mysterious oceans that presently exists. find out more...

Seasonal Seas; the effects of the seasons on the world's temperate seas. Grey seals breed and the pups are marooned for weeks until they can swim. Spring heralds the bloom of phytoplankton, providing food for copepods, which, in turn, are prey to vast swarms of jellyfish. Giant kelp grows at a summer rate of a metre a day providing sanctuary for fish and sea otters. Late summer sees Pacific salmon waiting in the open sea, as the water level in their chosen river is too low, and falling prey to a find out more...